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==Naija== | ==Naija== | ||
===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
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===Pronunciation=== | ===Pronunciation=== |
Revision as of 20:06, 4 November 2020
Naija
Etymology
From English take
Pronunciation
- tek
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 330
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 55
- Frequency in raw corpus: 9834
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 42
Usage
Definition
- Sey person or ting collect something.
Verb
- Sey you collect something wey another person give you.
- Take your size. — (WAZP_08_Your-Heart-Dey-Heavy_M__83, Take your size.)
- Take your banga soup wey be sey still light for inside pot. — (NST_cleaned__35942, __Take the palm fruit that is still light in the pot__)
- Sey you accept something wey another person give you.
- na im dose wey dey work for am go take. — (deuber__2614, __It is what those who work for him will accept__)
- Come sofri tell am sey: “Just take am.” — (jw__35553, __Then, he softly told him that, " Just accept it"__)
- Sey person dey snap photo
- Dem dey take foto — (NSC_Ajede_2020, They are snapping pictures.)
- Sey person dey drink or smoke something.
- No dey smoke or take wetin fit put your life for danger — (jw__27102, __Don't be smoking or drinking anything that will put your life in danger__)
- Dey sip Krest take cause of my belle. — (ENU_37_Dmoris-Restaurant_MG__105, I was drinking Krest because of my stomach.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- collect, accept
Translations
- English: take, accept, drink
Aux
take
- Na so dem take finish the house o — ( That's how they finished the building )